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Tarek Masoud on Fareed Zakaria's GPS: Is There Still Hope for a Two-State Solution?

Aug. 10, 2025

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Tarek Masoud on Fareed Zakaria's GPS: Is There Still Hope for a Two-State Solution?

Aug. 10, 2025
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Intelligence From al-Baghdadi Raid, Including 2 Prisoners, Could Reveal Trove of ISIS Clues

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people look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group.
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“We Have Captured Your Women”: Explaining Jihadist Norm Change

Summer 2019 by Aisha Ahmad
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Societal (In)Security in the Middle East: Radicalism as a Reaction?

Apr. 24, 2019 by Hassan Ahmadian
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‘Skype on Steroids’: From Harvard Square To Jordan Through A Portal

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Diane Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, traveled to Iraq where she heard from Syrian refugees frustrated that so many people know so little about them. (Kirk Carapezza/WGBH)

The Muslim Brotherhood Movement in the Arab Winter

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